India: Today’s news in pictures

Jul 17, 2018 17:00 IST

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked Parliament to consider bringing a new law to deal with offences of mob violence and provide deterrent punishment to offenders amid rising attacks by self-styled cow vigilantes and crowds in the country. The bench passed a slew of directions to provide “preventive, remedial and punitive measures” to deal with offences like mob violence and cow vigilantism. (Sonu Mehta / HT File)

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar, Congress’s Ghulam Nabi Azad and Mallikarjun Kharge among others at an all-party meeting in New Delhi. The PM hoped that leaders across parties would raise issues of public importance in the larger interest of the country in the Parliament’s upcoming monsoon session. (PTI)

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Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) teachers raise slogans while marching towards the official residence of governor N N Vohra, demanding implementation of the seventh pay commission recommendations. A large contingent of police was deployed to stop the march, water canons fired and protesting teachers asked to disperse, an official said. (Waseem Andrabi / HT Photo)

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People make way through flood waters on the Una-Veraval highway after heavy rains, in Una town of Gir Somnath district in Gujarat. (PTI)

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Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati removed Jai Prakash Singh from the post of party national coordinator, a day after he claimed that Congress president Rahul Gandhi cannot become the country’s prime minister due to his “mother’s foreign origin”. Although the Congress did not react to Singh’s comments, the BJP was quick to take a jibe at Mayawati’s party. (PTI File)

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Relatives and friends offer condolences to the parents of Anissia Batra, who fell to her death from the terrace of her home in south Delhi’s Panchsheel Park in New Delhi.Three days after her death, the police arrested her husband, who has been accused of harassing her for dowry. (Sonu Mehta / HT Photo)

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It is our fundamental duty to strike down a provision the moment we spot it as unconstitutional, the Supreme Court said on Tuesday while hearing pleas seeking scrapping of Section 377 that criminalises same sex acts. “We would not wait for the majoritarian government to enact, amend or not to enact any law to deal with violations of fundamental rights,” a five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra observed. (Samir Jana / HT File)

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India news in pictures -- a roundup of today’s top news across the country from a Supreme Court statement to consider bringing a law to deal with offences of mob violence and provide deterrent punishment to offenders to Jai Prakash Singh’s removal from the post of party national coordinator by Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati after he claimed that Rahul Gandhi cannot become the country’s prime minister due to his “mother’s foreign origin”.